Friday - November 6
Preliminary Program
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8:30am - 2:00pm
VENDOR CAFEPlease join us for the always informative AMIA vendor exhibits! It’s a great place to get a cup of coffee all day.9:00am - 10:00am
Content Storage Management versus HSM in A/V ArchivingChair
Josef Marc - Front Porch Digital
Jim Lindner - Media Matters
Speakers
Josef Marc - Front Porch Digital
Jim Lindner - Media Matters
Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) tools lower the cost of A/V storage by moving files between expensive disk arrays and less expensive data tapes. But HSM technology's market is not A/V, it's general purpose data, and it's not a natural fit for media. 10 years ago the storage manufacturing community invented a new approach called Content Storage Management (CSM), quickly adopted by virtually all broadcasters. This SMPTE-style presentation compares HSM and CSM, and outlines CSM's value proposition in an A/V archive infrastructure.
9:00am - 10:00am
Fragment Identification: Silent Era Film (1895 -1929)Chair
Antonella Bonfanti - George Eastman HouseSpeakers
Anthony L'Abbate - George Eastman House
George R. Willeman - Library of Congress
Rachel Parker - Library of CongressTrying to identify a silent era film fragment can be a daunting task if you cannot find the resources necessary to make sense of what you're seeing. This "back to basics" session will provide the tools and guidelines required to decode the content and physical characteristics of your unidentified films by teaching attendees to carefully explore every clue and cross-referencing them with bibliographic resources as well as through the expertise of the archival community.
9:00am - 10:00am
Aspiration to Asset: Revitalizing Analog Video to Create a Searchable, Value-Rich, Digital CollectionChair
Sarah Tischer Scully - Dartmouth College
Arthur Hanchett - Dartmouth CollegeSpeakers
Arthur Hanchett - Dartmouth College
Sarah Tischer Scully - Dartmouth CollegeIn the summer of 2009, staff of the Dartmouth College Library initiated a project to assess, catalog and digitize a collection of videotapes that had been housed in long-term storage, inaccessible to students and scholars. The collection of 2,700 videotapes was recorded at Dartmouth between 1970-2000 in a variety of outdated formats. Contents include official College events and public lectures featuring well-known writers, artists and scholars. The central challenge was to make this invisible collection accessible to the public and to provide rich digital reproduction of the original content. A sample of the collection was digitized in-house and several tapes were sent to a commercial service for a cost and restoration comparison. This presentation will cover all aspects of the planning and organization of the project. Workflow, project outcomes, and next steps in the preservation and publication of archival media will be presented along with samples from the digitized collection.
10:00am - 12:00pm
KODAK Stop By Shoot FilmStop By Shoot Film is a hands-on opportunity to capture images using a Super 16mm motion picture camera. Participants will learn the basics of camera operation, exposure and film emulsion choices. Led by a KODAK cinematographer, participants will work in small groups to practice various camera techniques while shooting various scenes. Each participant will receive a DVD to enable them to view their work. Scene creativity is encouraged. Sessions are limited, sign up early!10:30am - 12:00pm
Digitizing 201: Video Digitization Workflows and ChallengesChair
David Rice - AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
Angelo Sacerdote - Bay Area Video CoalitionSpeakers
David Rice - AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
Angelo Sacerdote - Bay Area Video Coalition
Skip Elsheimer - A/V Geeks LLCFollowing last year's "Digitizing101", we will review the planning process for a video digitization project; examination of exceptions; customization of the process to the source material, and quality control. The session will examine case studies for working with damaged or 'not-to-spec' materials, address documentation practices for preservation workflow, and stress how to conduct quality control. Actual situations are used in covering strategies for video digitization - (identification of format, warning signs to look for before playback, determining the length and more.) We will cover how to deal with tapes that do not play back and what you need to think about when playing back damaged tapes; how to determine correct playback settings for tapes with no color bars; preservation strategies for digital media on tapes or discs (DVCam and Compact Disc), with attention to how to design a high-efficiency workflow and perform quality control on the digital results.
10:30am - 12:00pm
Digital Durability and Durable Access: PrestoPRIME and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision solutionsChair
Karen Cariani - WGBH Media Library and ArchivesSpeakers
Johan Ooman - Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Richard Wright - BBCDigitization brings its own problems, and a group of European audiovisual archives are leading PrestoPRIME, which is developing digital preservation tools specifically for archive-quality audiovisual content. The work includes clear advice on formats, wrappers, storage and migration strategies -- and new time-based tools for making digital libraries work on audiovisual content. Images for the Future is safeguarding the Dutch audiovisual heritage. Such large-scale digitization efforts ensure long-term access, and reveal the social and economic value of the collections. This paper will focus on the services that can be created, and on their social and economic benefits. Value creation is the key to investment by government and funding programs. It will discuss initiatives at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (leading Images for the Future), with national as well as European best-practice examples: the educational platform ED*IT and the Video Active portal.
10:30am - 12:00pm
St Louis Cinema on the EdgeChair
Stephen Parr - San Francisco Media Archive/Oddball Film+Video
Andrew Lampert - Anthology Film ArchivesSpeakers
Stephen Parr - San Francisco Media Archive/Oddball Film+Video
Andrew Lampert - Anthology Film Archives
Van McElwee - Webster University
Nanette E. Boileau - St Louis University
Zlatko Cosic - Multimedia Artist-Eye Production
Bill Morris - Imagemaker
Pier Marton - Washington University/Videomaker/Artist
R D ZurickSt Louis' rich and vibrant independent media making community draws on the wealth and diversity of its colleges, universities, film societies and cinematheques as well as its alternative venues and multicultural history. St Louis Cinema on the Edge will showcase independent and innovative new media makers in a wide range of cinematic and electronic styles. These electronic film and media makers are recognized both locally, collaborating on multi sound and image programs and internationally where their work is exhibited and screened.
12:00pm - 2:30pm
Awards and Scholars LuncheonPlease join us to honor the 2009 AMIA Awards honorees as well as the recipients of the AMIA Scholarship and Fellowship awards. Plus, the inaugural William O'Farrell Volunteer Award. Our luncheon hosts are Universal Studios BluWave Audio.2:30pm - 3:30pm
After These Messages: Archives and the Fate of AdvertisementsChair
Skip Elsheimer - AV GeeksSpeakers
Devin Orgeron - North Carolina State University
Mike Mashon - Library of Congress
Rick Prelinger - Prelinger ArchivesWhat, besides selling us loads of stuff, do commercials do? How do we define them? What role can/should archives play in shaping our relationship to this material? As archives assess their growing collections and shrinking resources, "commercials" -- broadly defined -- seem especially vulnerable. This panel raises questions about our relationship to these images and about how best to mange them.
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Can You Play Your Old Videotapes?Chair
Jim Wheeler - Digital ForwardSpeakers
Jim Lindner - Media Matters
David Crosthwait - DC Video
Tony Korte - VideomagneticsFinding a usable videotape machine is the main problem with playing old videotapes. With the exception of VHS, analog videotape recorders are no longer being made. The ones that are still alive will not last much longer. The loss of access to most videotape collections is a Katrina-level disaster and most video archivists are not aware of this. David and both Jims have many years of experience with all of the old videotape machines. They will tell you which videotape formats are in the most danger and how to cope with this potential disaster. Tony has many years of experience making video heads for all types of videotape recorders. This session will give you information you need to help your funders develop a budget for converting to digital and to convince them they will lose the collection otherwise. The clock is ticking. Will your videotape collection ever be used, or will it just occupy shelf space?
2:30pm - 4:00pm
KODAK Stop By Shoot FilmStop By Shoot Film is a hands-on opportunity to capture images using a Super 16mm motion picture camera. Participants will learn the basics of camera operation, exposure and film emulsion choices. Led by a KODAK cinematographer, participants will work in small groups to practice various camera techniques while shooting various scenes. Each participant will receive a DVD to enable them to view their work. Scene creativity is encouraged. Sessions are limited, sign up early!3:45pm - 5:15pm
Neither Here Nor There: Preservation and Access in the Art WorldChair
Jeff Martin - Archival Moving Image ConsultantSpeakers
Jeff Martin - Archival Moving Image Consultant
Victoria Keddie - NYU/Museum Studies
Walter Forsberg - NYU/MIAP
Sandra Gibson - NYU/MIAP/Whitney Museum
Rebecca Cleman - Electronic Arts IntermixThe rise of moving image and time-based art in galleries and museums has created preservation challenges only now being addressed. Strategies for access that are based on archival models - theater screenings or on-site research access - do not address the needs of time-based art. Technological challenges further complicate the situation, when works become inaccessible due to format obsolescence. This panel will explore these issues with a series of case studies based on recent work in the field.
3:45pm - 5:15pm
Harnessing Collective Knowledge: Three Case Studies of New Collaborative ToolsChair
Chris Lacinak - AudioVisual Preservation SolutionsSpeakers
Chris Lacinak - AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
Mick Newnham - National Film and Sound Archive
Richard Wright - BBCThis session reviews three new exciting projects -PrestoSpace's wiki, National Library of Australia's Mediapedia, and AudioVisual Preservation Solutions' CEDAR - each of which provides open, collaborative, online resources that harness the expertise within the community through centralized sites. The result is information that enables archivists to perform activities such as identification, inspection, assessment, and documentation of their collections. These activities are all integral to collection management and speak directly to planning and budgeting.
3:45pm - 5:15pm
The Venue Accreditation Scheme: A New Approach to Quality Assurance in the Theatrical Presentation of Archival Moving ImagesChair
Leo Enticknap - University of Leeds
Brian Guckian - Projected ImageSpeakers
Brian Guckian - Projected Image
Paul Rayton - American Cinematheque / Egyptian Theatre
Katie Trainor - Museum of Modern Art
Speaker from Janus Films
This session reports on progress made on the development of the proposed AMIA Venue Accreditation (formerly Approval) Scheme, initially proposed at last year's conference. The Scheme provides assurance to archives lending prints and digital material to exhibition venues as to the ability of such venues to handle the materials without damage and to present them to adequate technical standards. In doing so, the scheme aims to promote technical standards of theatrical access to archival material that reflect the integrity of the original and its preservation. The Speakers will report on the outcome of the work, including consultations with AMIA Members, and will propose the final details of the scheme and a road map for its implementation
7:00pm - 10:00pm
3rd Not-Quite-Annual Moving Image Archivists Moving Image FestivalCo-Chairs
Dwight Swanson - Center for Home Movies
Carolyn FaberAside from their work in the field of film preservation, many AMIA members are also talented filmmakers. Some are well-known artists with extensive festival resumes, while others are hobbyists making films in their spare time. After a 2-year hiatus, the third installment of the Moving Image Archivists' Moving Image Festival will showcase the films, videotapes and digital works made by AMIA members and AMIA conference attendees.
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